Why choose Evoke to help your school?
The education specialists within the Evoke team truly understand how to help schools improve their communications experience in line with government guidelines.
- The Evoke team will work with your school to understand everything that makes it unique and how best to maximise the benefits of our School Line solutions.
- Evoke is developing a loyal base of customers in the education sector largely from word of mouth recommendations within the school community.
- Evoke are passionate about delivering against all the areas that are important to schools, colleges and academy's like Improving student outcomes, Enhancing communication between school and parents, supporting students in the classroom and at home, Being environmentally conscious and procuring sustainable solutions, reducing costs and ensuring effective security measures are in place.
Introducing School Line
School Line from Evoke Telecom is a range of telephony solutions that provides schools with more effective methods of communicating within the school and extended school community. At Evoke we focus on improving student outcomes and enabling schools to have access to technology that transforms the way people teach and learn.
School Line Benefits
Some of the benefits of our School Line telephony solutions include:
Better call handling
Callers will be able to talk to the right person the first time they call. They will also have the option to leave a message, improving parent and teacher interaction and record sensitive conversations for future reference if required. Many of our schools have also set up an absence reporting line and use Auto Attendant at peak times so office staff can be left to deal with parents, pupil's and offer support face to face. Our School Line systems can be programmed to the exact specification of each school.
Keeping in touch
Parents can be notified of any events, incidents or important information such as an emergency school closure through SMS or via recorded messages. Some of our schools have set up information lines so if you want to have details about particular school activities, this is a handy way to communicate them.
Supporting the students at home
With Broadband Telephony, teachers can now provide additional homework or coaching support to their students. Our schools sometimes call this a 'Homework Hotline'. Similarly with Broadband technology, teachers have the ability to work from home or at an off-site location whilst still having the same technology and contactability as in school.
Bullying management
An efficient and confidential facility for dealing with school bullying via a dedicated DDI (direct dial in) number which is pointed at a dedicated mailbox on the phone system. All messages on this mailbox can be treated as confidential.
Security for your phone system
The UK telecoms industry is reporting a growing trend of PBX hacking (phreaking) allowing organised crime to dial in and out of phone systems – they then sell this access on in the form of cheap calling cards. Hackers target PBXs out of working hours when they know no-one is there to monitor line usage. Schools and other educational establishments are particularly susceptible due to long holidays and predictable opening times. Evoke Telecom is able to offer cost effective solutions to protect your school against this type of crime.
Easier communication for teachers and staff
Our School Line systems are easy to adopt, integrate, manage and utilise.
- All staff are able to have access to communications both in the classroom and around the school grounds, creating a safer and more secure environment.
- Teachers are able to pick up their messages at a location and time to suit them, preventing disruption during meetings or to core teaching time.
- All of our School Line systems are compatible with Unified Messaging which enables messages and recordings to be stored and managed more easily, allowing teachers and other staff to control their voice mail messages and recorded calls. Stored as .WAV files, these can be easily managed from a PC via email or even wireless technology for staff on the move.
Furthermore, our School Line solutions have inbuilt emergency features that allow staff or pupils to get help should they need it. For example, you can customise phones with an 'emergency' key; on pressing this, the call will ring at any number of locations on the school property which could include reception, the admin office, security hut or anyone listed in the emergency call group.
Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery features offer alternative routing for calls into the school to mobiles or another site should there be any problems.
Less stress and reduced telephony costs
Evoke Telecom have helped many schools save money on their lines, calls, mobiles and telephone systems and many schools feel with better communication, this has reduced stress and allowed increased focus on more important tasks of the day
Find out more about school telephone systems
Find out more about how the iPECS range can benefit your school or education establishment, whether primary, secondary, university campus or college, and how you can save money, drive productivity and increase student satisfaction.
Supporting technology in the classroom to enhance the learning experience
Media rich lessons keep students interested and help grasp difficult concepts. Through video and multimedia content, tools and streaming capabilities, students are successfully engaged in new forms of learning. Lessons enhanced through the use of voice, data and video to connect pupils to the rest of the World, provide access to resources, information and experiences like never before.
Avaya's IP Office which is part of the School Line portfolio supports the use of technology in the classroom, allowing measurable changes and improvements in teacher practices, student engagement, achievement and research skills. AvayaLiveTM Engage expands this portfolio to offer an engaging learning environment for students. It is used as a platform to conduct 'virtual' classrooms and for students to collaborate virtually, without the need for study spaces or classrooms.
Get a Quote
Evoke Telecom supplies School Line solutions from leading manufacturers such as Ericsson LG, Avaya and Gamma to schools in the Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and East Midlands area, as well as offering nationwide coverage for our multi-site schools, colleges and academies.
For a no obligation, friendly discussion on how Evoke can help your school, college or academy improve student outcomes and enable your school to have access to technology that transforms the way people teach and learn, please call us on 0800 8403688 or 01509 278278 or complete this form.
